Category: community and culture
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More From Our Monsters?
I was more intrigued by Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer (2023) at its beginning than I was by its end. This book is presented as an audience memoir by its author. In it, Dederer considers the question of art created by artists who have behaved badly. She considers a range of different artists,…
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Dead On Arrival
I repeatedly considered walking out of Dead of Winter, which I think is worse than most credible critics think. This movie, which is written by Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb and directed by Brian Kirk, is a story about a widow named Barb (Emma Thompson) who is driving in snowstorm to scatter her late husband’s…
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A Little Less Minty
Mint Mobile is good, and could be great, but just isn’t as good as it once was. I’ve been a long-term Mint customer, and have been spending only fifteen dollars a month for my cell service. Moreover, I pay for the entire year, which means I needn’t think about it for twelve months, and more…